Motivational Quotes

Belief

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Belief

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Bach, Richard

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Grass, Gunther

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Swift, Jonathan

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Bakker, Jim

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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Ewing, Patrick

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Kafka, Franz

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

Fuller, Thomas

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Lilly, John C.

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

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To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Lippmann, Walter

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Gifford, Frank

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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Tracy, Brian

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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

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What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

Virkkala, Timothy

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What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Lawrence, Martin

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Barnum, P.T.

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

Smith, Lillian

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You must see first before you can believe.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Baldwin, James

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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Nizer, Louis

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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Phelps, William Lyon

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Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Brown, Les

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.